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joi, 26 februarie 2015

Open-source paint tool Krita 2.9 introduces new workflows for HDR
painting.
The development team calls version 2.9 Krita’s
“biggest release until now” with dozens of new key features.
Although Krita has been around for a while, it has rapidly grown better suited for serious professional work over the past two years – development further accelerated by last year’s successful Kickstarter campaign.

Highlights of this release:

new Perspective transform tool with vanishing points highlight;

new Cage and Liquify transform tools;

non-destructive transformation via transform masks;

various improvements in deep painting;

better blending in the Mix brush and assorted improvements in brush engines;

new assistants to help drawing parallel and infinite lines, as well as objects in perspective;

updated port of G'MIC to provide all the new features including artwork colorization;

better support for PSD and EXR files, newly added loading of raw files, newly added support for r16 and r8 heightmaps.

New transform modes, HDR colour picking
Features funded by the Kickstarter cash include a range of new
transformation modes, including Liquify, Perspective and Warp, all with
support for masks for a non-destructive transform workflow.
In addition, the colour picker now supports HDR colour selection, in
the shape of the HSI and HSY colour spaces. (The I and Y components
effectively turn exposure up or down.)

More Photoshop-like workflows for masking images and browsing reference material
Masking now works in a way more similar to Photoshop, with a new global selection mask, and the option to separate alpha channels into transparency masks.
And like Photoshop, reference images can now be viewed alongside your
painting in multiple sub-windows, which are cascaded or tiled
automatically. Alternatively, there is a full-screen tabbed window mode.Lots more new features and pipeline integration improvements
Other highlights include a new option to split all of the flat colours
on a layer into their own separate layers; and new assistants for
parallel, infinite and vanishing point lines in perspective drawings.
Compatibility with professional pipelines advances steadily, with all
but four blending modes in PSD files now supported, improved OpenEXR
support, and the option to import RAW files.
There are also a lot of smaller additions and bugfixes, which you can find in the official release announcement.

marți, 24 februarie 2015

SolveigMM Video Splitter video editor for Windows operates with FLV, AVC/H264, MP4, MOV, AVCHD, MPEG-2, MKV, WEBM,
MPEG-1, AVI, WMV, MP3, WMA files. The software provides seamless editing
experience, removing unwanted video parts with just a few clicks,
perfectly cutting and joining video and audio streams. The editor builds
on the frame-accurate approach keeping 99.9% of data intact.
It is capable of cutting out any number of video or audio fragments
at once, without re-encoding the data, preserving the original quality
of the movie and is indispensable for such tasks as editing out
commercials from a captured TV program, parental advisory, splitting
movies and clips for CD writing and extracting audio track from video
file. SolveigMM Video Splitter gives the power to edit your videos both
easily and professionally.

Leawo DVD Creator is a professional home DVD creating program. It
provides an easy-to-use and friendly DVD making solution to help you
convert and burn video to DVD content for any use. It is a powerful
video to DVD converter that supports various video to DVD conversions,
like AVI to DVD, MKV to DVD, MP4 to DVD, WMV to DVD, Xvid to DVD, etc.
With ingenious video editing features available, this DVD maker creates
individualized DVD movies easily.

joi, 5 februarie 2015

Free Studio Manager is a completely redesigned all-in-one
package for more than 45 programs. It contains eight sections to bundle
all free multimedia applications which have been developed by
DVDVideoSoft. These sections the following: YouTube, MP3 and Audio,
CD-DVD-BD, DVD and Video, Photo and Images, Mobiles, Apple Devices, 3D.
Thus all the programs are included in the new interface for easy access
to any of them.
With this free software you can convert video and
audio files between different formats and to iPod, PSP, iPhone,
BlackBerry, and all popular mobile phones and devices burn and rip DVDs
and audio CDs upload and download YouTube videos and music to your
computer, iPod, PSP, iPhone, and BlackBerry perform basic editing of
audio and video files as well as record videos and make snapshots.

miercuri, 4 februarie 2015

What do you get in the Pro version?
Many people are familiar with the existing free edition of Google
Earth, which enables users to view satellite images,
supplemented with 3D buildings.
The Pro version it enables you to
supplement the standard data set by importing GIS data, and includes
basic measurement tools (shown in the video below).
It also allows users to print higher-resolution images
and to generate custom flythrough movies.

Stephane Marty has made Substance (organic and 3D
fractal software) and Emulsion (photorealistic
rendering) available to download free.

Create organic 3D forms quickly and intuitively

Substance is an intuitive tool for generating 3D fractals
and organic forms.
You can use a ‘fractal microscope’ to navigate 2D fractals and isolate sections and convert them into 3D forms.

The resulting geometry can be exported in OBJ format, using a
built-in mesh-decimation algorithm; or rendered using Substance’s
P.U.R.E. unbiased rendering engine. There’s even support for augmented reality.

The second application, Emulsion, is a progressive real-time
physically based renderer. It works in CPU-based, GPU-based and hybrid
modes, and supports multi-core and Hyper-Threaded systems.
The software includes a basic materials editor and camera settings, and supports tone mapping.
It imports 3DS, OBJ, DAE, DXF, PLY, STL and RAW files and exports HDR and EXR files – and again, has a built-in augmented reality option.

System requirements and availability
Both Substance and Emulsion are compatible with Windows XP and above,
although for Emulsion, you’ll need to be running a 64-bit OS. Emulsion’s
GPU rendering mode supports both Nvidia and AMD cards.
Both applications are free downloads and are provided without support
or documentation: note that the inline help no longer works, since
NeuroSystems’ servers have now been shut down.
Download Substance from Stephane Marty’s websiteDownload Emulsion from Stephane Marty’s website

marți, 3 februarie 2015

The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit small-sized single-board computers developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
A new budget-priced
Raspberry Pi computer has been unveiled, offering a faster processor (900MHz quad-core) and more memory (1 gigabyte of RAM) at about the
same price .
Previous versions of the kit have been widely adopted by schools and enthusiasts across the world.
Lately Pi faces increased competition.
Another UK-based firm, Imagination, recently released a
bare-bones computer of its own, and the Arduino, Intel Galileo, Gizmo 2,
BeagleBone Black and Hummingboard also form part of a growing list of
rivals.
The Raspberry Pi 2 makes two major changes to the previous version, while leaving other components unchanged:

The CPU is now quad-core rather than
single-core. That means it can be programmed to use more of its cores to
offer extra computing power, or made to use fewer to help save power
consumption - useful if running as part of a battery-powered
contraption. In addition, the Cortex A7 processor now runs at 900MHz
rather than 700MHz

The board now features one gigabyte of RAM memory, double the amount that was previously included

As before, owners will need to add their own keyboard, a
MicroSD card containing a copy of an operating system, and
television/monitor-connecting cables in order to start programming.
Enclosures bought for the previous Model B+ computers will also fit the
new one.
It can be used as a PC for surfing the web, watching videos, playing games and of course programming.
The Raspberry Pi 2 can run a variety of Linux-based systems
out-of-the-box, but its makers have also promised it will be able to
support Microsoft's next operating system (Windows10) at a later date at no extra cost.

luni, 2 februarie 2015

iPixSoft Video Slideshow Maker is a professional video slideshow
software to help you turn digital photos and video clips into slideshow
with professional designed templates, transition effects, text captions,
background music, etc.

duminică, 1 februarie 2015

OkMap is an interactive software which allows you to work on your
computer screen with digital maps that you have either bought or scanned.
OkMap can also import vectorial data from the most common formats and
DEM data relevant to height informations.
Through these maps, you can organize your paths by creating
waypoints, routes and tracks on your computer monitor, and upload this
data to your GPS.
OkMap sets automatically altitude data and estimates travel times.
Furthermore OkMap provides you also with
autorouting and geocoding functions.
Data collected by your GPS can be downloaded on your computer,
stored and displayed on the maps. They can also be used to create
different types of statistics.
By connecting a GPS to your laptop, you can plot your position
on maps in real-time. If you are connected to the network you can
constantly send your position to a remote computer, or receive the
position of your companions on your computer and display the
related tracks on maps in real time.
OkMap can also interface Google Maps and Google Earth.
With Google Maps you can view maps and data of your interest.
With Google Earth you can view your paths and your maps also in 3D.
OkMap include a feature to generate automatically compatible
"Garmin Custom Maps" (kmz format) and maps in
OruxMaps format.
This feature includes map tiling from and to different image file
formats (including ECW map format).
It's possible select KML extensions 2.2 (if GPS supports them),
the JPEG quality, the image resizing, the KML transparency, the draw order,
and so on. You can also select the tiles to generate in output.
This feature support "not north oriented" maps also.